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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]Robert White was able to defeat Vincent Orange and David Garber. Today's election was a near total wipe-out for Team Green with only Brandon Todd surviving. The Council will be significantly reshaped with two former Racine employees (both named White) joining the Council and the return of Vincent Gray.

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Is this a good or a bad thing? I'm new here...[/quote]

Whether this is a good or bad thing is dependent upon your own political positions. In my view, Bowser is too closely tied to big financial backers, especially developers. Her agenda almost always seems to end up rewarding those financial backers. That was one criticism of her homeless shelter plan. She had just enough allies on the Council to get most of her agenda passed. Now, she will be forced to negotiate and compromise. On the one hand, that's a good thing. But, on the other hand, too often negotiations simply mean that more players get a bite of the pie. So, in the worst case, not only will Bowser's supporters get rewarded by City projects, but so will Gray's, etc. There will be some interesting coalitions. There won't be much of a pro-Bowser faction now with only Todd left, Gray may find a supporter or two, Carl Racine now has two former employees, and then the existing progressive group will still be around. Given that Racine and Gray both are suspected of having mayoral ambitions, this will make for interesting times.

One thought that I had is that last night's winners still have to win the general election. For Democrats, that is normally a shoe-in. The one interesting case is the At-Large seat. In November, two at-large seats will be on the ballot, but a Democrat can only win one of them. The other is current held by David Grosso who is an independent. But, there is no reason that non-Democrats couldn't win both seats. This will be interesting because the only incumbent at-large candidate will be Grosso. Robert White is still fairly new to the scene. The November Presidential election may bring a lot more voters to polls. If I was someone who had access to campaign money, some sort of a machine, name recognition, and a desire to hold public office, I might be heading down to the Board of Elections to change my party registration. There is one person who fits this description of whom I can think and that is Kwame Brown. If anyone happens to see an old mail jeep pulling up to the BOEE, please let me know.
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